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Why are people still flying to climate conferences by private jet?

Envirotec Magazine

This is an extraordinary statistic, especially as fewer world leaders attended that COP, as many were busy at a G20 summit in Bali. We also compared the carbon footprints for the past three COPs to help see where the conferences could be located in order to dissuade attendees from using private jets, unless absolutely essential for security.

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At COP28, Family Farmers Who Feed the World Went Unheard

DeSmogBlog

These family-owned and often impoverished producers each manage only a few hectares of land, but they provide a third of the world’s food and up to 80 percent of food in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Put simply, they are the bulwark against global hunger, yet they have received just 0.3 percent of climate finance.

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Why Saudi Arabia Wins Top Prize in the Bad Sport Awards 2023

DeSmogBlog

Worse still, it has now emerged from new undercover reporting that Saudi Arabia is operating a so-called ‘Oil Sustainability Programme’ (OSP) designed to artificially increase demand for oil across Africa and Asia. Now the air pollution from burning fossil fuels alone is estimated to kill more than tobacco smoke.

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Big Meat Unveils Battle Plans for COP28

DeSmogBlog

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. JBS, the world’s most polluting meat company, will be out in “full force” in Dubai , according to the files. The North American Meat Institute will host a side event at the US COP pavilion on December 11, the summit’s Agriculture Day, for example.

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COP15: Why business is in the spotlight as debates around nature funding intensify

Business Green

Dozens of countries have said they will not back any global pact on nature and its various provisions around pollution and nature protection without agreement on a new international financing commitment. As such, it is impossible to underestimate the importance of money to the Montreal talks.

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Could COP27 trigger a new era of partnerships to rev up the global energy transition?

Business Green

As such, the COP Presidency should presumably welcome mounting calls for a new era of public-private cooperation on the financial packages that can help developing and emerging economies wean themselves off fossil fuels. The countries where these polluting assets are located are under significant pressure to phase down these polluting assets.

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'Grave and mounting threat': IPCC again raises alarm that climate impacts are proving worse than feared

Business Green

The findings highlight how human-induced climate change, alongside deforestation, pollution and land use change, is hampering nature's ability to provide services essential to human life, such as coastal protection, food supply or climate regulation through the capture and storage of carbon from the atmosphere. The facts are undeniable.